Description
Summary: | Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 662 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-655) and index. |
ISBN: | 0203027124 9780203027127 9780415024563 0415024560 9781134974726 1134974728 9781134974672 1134974671 9781134974719 113497471X 9781138993938 113899393X 1280338369 9781280338366 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |